ATD at the Frankfurter Buchmesse

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 12, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Ya Sam wrote:

> Yeah, if it refers to the Bible that should influence the  
> translation of the title, as in some language the phrase 'against  
> the day' doesn' t sound good. But there are several phrases  
> 'against the day' phrases, so which one to choose?
>
> "against the day of my burying" John 12-7 (I wouldn't like this one  
> as a title)
>
> "agaisnt the day of  judgment and perdition" 2 Peter 3-7 (like this  
> better)
>
> "against the day of battle and war?" Job 38-23
>
> "against the day of battle" Proverbs 21-31
>
> "against the day of wrath and revelation" Romans 2-5
>
> "against the day of necessity"  Tobit (Apocrypha) 4-9
>

Maybe Pynchon's thinking of Krapp's Last Tape . . . feeling his  
mortality or something . . .



"against the day when my work will be done and perhaps no place left  
in my memory, warm or cold, for the miacle that . . . ."





(the tape is running)

Spiritually a year of profound gloom and indigence until that  
memorable night in March, at the end of the jetty, in the howling  
wind, never to be forgotten, when suddenly I saw the whole thing. The  
vision, at last. This I fancy is what I have chiefly to record this  
evening, against the day when my work will be done and perhaps no  
place left in my memory, warm or cold, for the miracle that ...  
(hesitates) ... for the fire that set it alight. What I suddenly saw  
was this, that the belief I had been going on all my life, namely–  
(Krapp switches off impatiently, winds tape forward, switches on  
again) –great granite rocks the foam flying up in the light of the  
lighthouse and the wind-gauge spinning like a propeller, clear to me  
at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in  
reality my most– (Krapp curses, switches off, winds tape forward,  
switches on again) –unshatterable association until my dissolution of  
storm and night and the fire– (Krapp curses louder, switches off,  
winds tape forward, switches on again) –my face in her breasts and my  
hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and  
moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.

Pause.

Past midnight. Never heard such silence. The earth might be uninhabited.


Krapp's Last Tape, 1958


>
>> From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>> To: Cyrus <ioannissevastianos at yahoo.gr>, Ya Sam  
>> <takoitov at hotmail.com>,        pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: ATD at the Frankfurter Buchmesse
>> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:57:55 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>> I'd go with the local standard Biblical trans. ...
>>
>> --- Cyrus <ioannissevastianos at yahoo.gr> wrote:
>>
>> > I won't know about the title until after I've read
>> > the book -- it might have connotations we can't even
>> > imagine right now...
>>
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